Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[The Dixie Chick]

Hiya guys, my mom and I were thinking about where to give our male chickens. We don't want to give them to a place that will slaughter them when they have finished their primary use (egg laying). Anybody got any good places? Thanks in advance!

-Jeym

I was also wondering if anyone has seen Smoky and the Bandit? I'd like to say I'm not the only one, but I don't know.

 

[chickflick]

Male chickens don't lay eggs. They are called roosters. Roosters job is to mate with the female chickens. And protect them.

Saw Smokey and the Bandit years and years ago.......

 

[jlynnet]

I need a load of mulch. My coops are a mess after all of this rain. Rain rain go away!

 

[The Dixie Chick]

Male chickens don't lay eggs.  They are called roosters.  Roosters job is to mate with the female chickens.  And protect them.

Saw Smokey and the Bandit years and years ago.......

No no, I know all of that. But we don't want roosters because they are loud and ordinances say no roosters. Darn ordinances. It's not fair that my neighbors can have dogs that bark their head off all day, but we can't have loud chickens. But we still don't want fertilized eggs. But again, we don't want to give them to a place that will kill them. So we don't know who to give them to.

-Jeym

I may still be a child, but I'm not dumb. I have done plenty of research on them.

 

[aart]

Hiya guys, my mom and I were thinking about where to give our male chickens. We don't want to give them to a place that will slaughter them when they have finished their primary use (egg laying). Anybody got any good places? Thanks in advance!

-Jeym

I was also wondering if anyone has seen Smoky and the Bandit? I'd like to say I'm not the only one, but I don't know.

Chickens are for food in my mind. Either they lay eggs or I make stew out of them. Rooster -N- Noodles...mmmmmmmm!! Old hens will go to stew too.

If you don't want to eat them, someone else might appreciate them.

 

[The Dixie Chick]

Heh! That's funny but sad at the same time. We love our chickens and would do anything to keep them alive (god I sound so over attached to them! ) I can understand, lots of people believe chickens only purposes are for eating and egg laying. We got ours as pets.

 

[1muttsfan]

While it is nice to keep birds as pets as well as for production, if you can not keep the roosters it is probably unreasonable to expect to find pet homes for them. They are non-productive, tend to fight with each other, and make a lot of noise. Most people can only keep a limited number of roosters due to their nature. Humanely killing them, and possibly eating them, is not an unreasonable alternative to to letting them go and no longer having any knowledge of or control over how they are cared for.

 

[The Dixie Chick]

I can understand. Sorry for my ignorance, and thank you for explaining.

-Jeym

By the way, there is no limit as to how many chickens is too many chickens.

 

[RaZ]

Funny thing about chickens as pets, those folk have never had RTF protection. One of the requirements of protection is that a farm be "commercial" and sell some type of ag. product e.g.eggs.

During my time to speak yesterday, I had eggs with me and offered to sell them to the commissioners or anyone in the audience. One lady wanted to buy 2 dozen and the MML people nearly exploded. They told me that I could not sell my eggs there. They said that there could be no selling in the building. I wonder if they sell Girl Scout cookies or candy bars for fund raisers.

I did sell the eggs later out in the street, just like a drug deal.

 

[HollyDuckFarmer]

@gladahmae

I did the same thing-- overbought snap peas in the giant packs. Ended up leaving them over the winter, in what I call my duck garage. It actually is an upcycled pickup truck bed toolbox, wood, and it holds all my feed, corn etc. plus it locks!! So my peas spent the miserable winter out there, and I wondered if they'd be no good bcz of that, but I tossed them down anyway. So far nothing. Is it too late to plant Kohlrabi seeds?